[AuckLUG] Strange system crash ? Any suggestions ?

[Justin Cook]

I recently learned the hard way not to try to perform drive repairs on 
'damaged' drives when the real issue is bad ram.

Always, always run memtest before trying to repair suddenly corrupt drives.


David Moore wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:36:07 +1200
> Ron Johns <ronaldj at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>   
>> ...
>> "Uncompressing Linux...
>>  OK booting the kernel
>>  CRC error
>>  Kernel panic - not syncing VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
>> unknown-block (0,0)"
>>     
>
> Hi Ron,
>
> I got this error not so long ago.  I've read it is symtomatic of hardware
> failure.  For me it was bad RAM.  Try running memtest86.  If your RAM is
> ok it could well be the hard drive.
>
> Hope that helps,
> David.
>
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